The House just completed voting, and has approved 246-182 the Democrats' defeatist resolution. This was expected: but the good news is, the 40-60 Republican defectors that the Democrats had been predicting failed to materialize. Only seventeen Republicans voted for the resolution --- and two Democrats broke ranks to vote against it.
First, let us recognize the two Democrats who did the right thing:Representative Jim Marshall
Phone: 202-225-6531
Fax: 202-225-3013
Web EmailRepresentative Gene Taylor
Phone: 202-225-5772Fax: 202-225-7074
Web EmailAnd now, the seventeen Republicans who decided today to end their political careers:
Representative James T. Walsh
Phone: 202-225-3701
Representative Walter Jones Phone: 202-225-3415
Fax: 202-225-4042
[Email: Rep.james.walsh AT mail.house.gov]
Fax: 202-225-3286
Web EmailRepresentative Wayne Gilchrest
Phone: 202-225-5311
Fax: 202-225-0254
Web EmailRepresentative Michael Castle
Phone: 202-225-4165
Fax: 202-225-2291
Web EmailRepresentative Richard (Ric) Keller
Phone: 202-225-2176
Fax: 202-225-0999
Web EmailRepresentative Philip Sheridan English
Phone: 202-225-5406
Fax: 202-225-3103
Web EmailRepresentative Ronald Ernest Paul
Phone: 202-225-2831
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Representative Frederick Stephen UptonPhone: 202-225-3761
Fax: 202-225-4986
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Representative Thomas M. DavisPhone: 202-225-1492
Fax: 202-225-3071
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Representative Mark KirkPhone: 202-225-4835
Fax: 202-225-0837
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Representative Howard CoblePhone: 202-225-3065
Fax: 202-225-8611
Email: howard.coble AT mail.house.gov
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Representative John J. Duncan Jr.Phone: 202-225-5435
Fax: 202-225-6440
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Representative James RamstadPhone: 202-225-2871
Fax: 202-225-6351
Email: mn03 AT mail.house.gov
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Representative Steven C. LaTOURETTEPhone: 202-225-5731
Fax: 202-225-3307
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Representative Robert InglisPhone: 202-225-6030
Fax: 202-226-1177
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Representative Timothy V. JohnsonPhone: 202-225-2371
Fax: 202-226-0791
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Representative Thomas PetriPhone: 202-225-2476
Fax: 202-225-2356
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From CNN:
Senate to vote SaturdayMoving quickly, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, has called a test vote for Saturday on an identical measure, and several presidential contenders in both parties rearranged their weekend campaign schedules to be present. (Watch a change of course in the Senate )
Republicans said in advance they would deny Democrats the 60 votes they need to advance the resolution, adding they would insist on equal treatment for a GOP-drafted alternative that opposes any reduction in funds for the troops. (Full story)
The developments unfolded as a new poll showed more than half those surveyed view the war as a hopeless cause.
A sizeable majority, 63 percent, opposes the decision to dispatch more troops, although support for Bush's decision has risen in the past few weeks from 26 percent to 35 percent, according to the AP-Ipsos poll.
So as we start seeing daily progress, the AP-Ipsos poll is showing that support is rising for Bush's new strategy.
Wonder how this backlash is going to hit the Republicans that voted for defeat and the Democrats that have been working for our defeat since well before last November..